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In
today’s
workplace,
distractions
are
everywhere.
It
is
increasingly
difficult
to
juggle
the
many
devices,
communication
channels,
and
the
flood
of
information
in
order
to
focus
on
work
at
hand.
So
reducing
the
“noise”
is
a
prominent
theme
across
the
enhancements
and
offerings
that
are
new
to
IBM’s
collaboration
solutions.
The
latest
... [ + Read more ]

Looking
back
even
just
five
years,
I
can’t
imagine
that
many
of
us
truly
understood
the
influence
that
social
media
would
have
on
our
lives
that
it
does
today.
It’s
a
no-brainer
that
we
live
in
a
fast-paced,
competitive
world,
and
it
is
largely
due
to
social
breaking
down
walls
... [ + Read more ]

In
my
role
as
social
business
evangelist,
I
spend
a
lot
of
time
helping
businesses
adopt
social
across
the
organization.
It
was
great
to
recently
see
that
some
of
this
has
been
paying
off!
According
to
the
2014 Business Tech Trends report, organizations
have
increased
social
deployment
by
106
percent
since
2012!
(Watch
full
replay
here
... [ + Read more ]

Last
week
I
told
you
about
the
amazing
results
that
Pacesetters
are
seeing
from
deploying
social
business
solutions,
according
to
IBM's
2014 Business Tech Trends report.
This
week
I'm
going
to
tell
you
what
your
enterprise
can
do
to
catch
up
in
social
based
on
those
Pacesetters’
key
practices.
﻿
The
Business
Tech
Trends
report
found
... [ + Read more ]

Jim
Claussen,
Industry
Category
Market
Management,
Social
Business
at
IBM
Land
Rover,
Intel
and
IBM
have
partnered
to
create
the
Connected
Car,
an
instrumented,
intelligent
car
connected
to
the
cloud
and
accessible
from
mobile
devices.
The
car
is
a
rolling
example
of
a
System
of
Engagement,
an
important
area
of
focus
... [ + Read more ]

Getting
Social
in
the
Cloud
with
IBM
SmartCloud
Docs
By
Sean
Brown,
Senior
Product
Manager,
IBM
Docs
I'm
amazed
when
I
look
back
at
how
the
workforce
has
changed
and
adapted
over
the
years.
Employees
are
now
more
geographically
dispersed
and
technologically
connected
than
they
ever
were
before.
Yet
the
concept
... [ + Read more ]

IBM
brings
together
cloud,
mobile
and
analytics
to
help
you
organize
and
prioritize
work.
By
Jeff
Schick,
General
Manager,
Enterprise
Social
Solutions
Every
day
I
come
into
work
and
open
my
email.
By
the
end
of
the
day
there
are
20
or
30
emails
left
open
on
my
desktop.
Each
email
represents
... [ + Read more ]

Cloud
computing
has
matured
dramatically
in
the
years
since
IBM
initially
introduced
social,
mobile,
meetings
and
mail
cloud
offerings.
Within
the
past
two
years
alone,
customers
have
reconciled
many
privacy
and
security
concerns,
and
cloud
adoption
has
soared.
For
IBM
customers,
this
has
been
in
part
due
to
IBM’s
cloud
governance
... [ + Read more ]

Rebecca
Buisan,
Director
of
Cloud
Product
Management,
IBM
Industry
Cloud
Solutions
Bringing
together
social
and
the
cloud
is
changing
how
businesses
work,
erasing
the
difficulties
of
time
differences,
easing
the
ability
to
find
and
share
new
ideas
with
people
who
need
them
right
away,
and
bringing
the
full
power
of
a
... [ + Read more ]

By
Colleen
Burns
LotusLive
Web
Content
Manager
&
Social
Business
Social
Media
Strategist
Who
doesn’t
like
to
save
a
dollar/euro/yen?
Saving
money
can
be
a
key
factor
in
decision
processes
for
many
companies.
But
speak
to
any
CEO
or
small
business
owner,
and
you’ll
learn
good
decision
making
often
involves
... [ + Read more ]

Organizations
continue
to
look
for
ways
to
empower
their
most
precious
asset
–
people
–
with
flatter
organizations,
data-driven
insights,
and
flexible
work
styles.
To
create
these
more
engaging
workplaces
–
which
in
turn
improve
customer
engagement
and
the
bottom
line
–
organizations
of
all
shapes
and
sizes
are
becoming
... [ + Read more ]

This
week
you
heard
about
IBM
Verse
–
a
new
cloud
solution
to
help
you
re-imagine
the
way
you
work.
We’re
excited
to
be
at
the
forefront
of
delivering
these
capabilities
first
in
the
IBM
Cloud.
It’s
easy
to
get
started
today,
taking
advantage
of
the
latest
capabilities
from
our
social
... [ + Read more ]

To get
the
full
benefit
of
social
business,
you
must
inject
it
into
your
key
business
processes
for
stronger
customer
engagement
and
workforce
collaboration.
But
many
enterprises
are
afraid
to
fully
embrace
social
business,
with
30
percent
of
them
citing
security
concerns
and
perceived
risk
as
major
adoption
barriers,
according
to
... [ + Read more ]

IBM's
Center
for
Applied
Insights
just
released
their
2014 Business Tech Trends report,
which
surveyed
over
1,400
decision
makers
across
15
industries
around
the
world
to
find
out
how
businesses
are
deploying
key
technologies.
The
study
found
that
social
business
is
now
being
deployed
by
70
percent
of
enterprises!
That
is
more
than
double
... [ + Read more ]

Cynthya
Peranandam,
Sr.
Marketing
Manager,
Social
Business
Solutions
Strategy
IBM
recently
announced
the
launch
of
the
IBM Cloud Marketplace,
a
site
full
of
cloud-based
apps
for
businesses,
developers
and
IT.
The
Marketplace
offers
demos,
trials
and
services
that
allow
businesses
to
experiment
and
test
out
capabilities
from
hundreds
of
IBM
offerings
company
wide.
Catering
... [ + Read more ]

Cynthya
Peranandam,
Sr.
Marketing
Manager,
Social
Business
Solutions
Strategy
Lately
it
seems
as
if
every
hit
song
features
multiple
artists.
Michael
Jackson
and
Justin
Timberlake.
Beyonce
and
Jay-Z.
Pitbull
and
...
almost
everyone.
While
musicians
have
been
collaborating
on
hits
for
a
long
time,
never
before
has
there
been
such
an
influx
... [ + Read more ]

Lately
it
seems
as
if
every
hit
song
features
multiple
artists.
Michael
Jackson
and
Justin
Timberlake.
Beyonce
and
Jay-Z.
Pitbull
and
...
almost
everyone.
While
musicians
have
been
collaborating
on
hits
for
a
long
time,
never
before
has
there
been
such
an
influx
of
creativity,
producing
songs
that
bring
together
artists
... [ + Read more ]

Mashup
Innovation:
Delivering
solutions
to
help
pediatricians
save
lives
across
the
globe
Wyatt
Urmey,
IBM
Social
Business
@WyattJU
Every
year,
nearly
7
million
children
across
the
globe
die
before
their
fifth
birthday.
It’s
a
staggering
and
heartbreaking
statistic,
but
even
more
so
when
you
learn
the
biggest
healthcare
threats
to
children
are
still
... [ + Read more ]

By
Joyce
Davis
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
community
manager
A
big
thanks
to Don Buddenbaum and Andy Smith who
joined
our
community
webcast
yesterday
to
talk
about
the
latest
developments
in
OpenSocial
technologies
and
standards.
They
showed
a
couple
examples
of
open
source
technology
used
to
extend
IBM
Connections,
and
to
customize
existing
applications
by
embedding
activity
streams.
They
... [ + Read more ]

By
Joyce
Davis
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
community
manager
On
Tuesday's
community
webcast,
we
had
some
inspiring
community
member
spotlights
by
Matt
Collins,
VP
of
Marketing
for
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
and
Mitch
Cohen,
Manager
of
Messaging
and
Collaboration
with
Colgate-Palmolive.
Next,
Marc
Pagnier
and
Fernando
Salazar
gave
an
abbreviated
version
of
their
Lotusphere
... [ + Read more ]